Events Intern, Cancer Research
24 Weeks, 23 Sept – 7 March
£23.9k
£13.15 per hour
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Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Job no longer available
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£23.9k
£13.15 per hour
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Passionate about events
- Drive to help beat cancer sooner
- Enjoys working with people and can build relationships
- Happy to pick up the phone and talk to people
- Able to write in a compelling and eye-catching manner
- A great problem solver
- Willing to learn
- You are diligent and careful with attention to detail
- Motivated and able to work on your own
- You get stuck in and happy to work hard to make things happen
- Ability to work at a desk on a computer using Microsoft
What the job involves
- Hours: 7 hours per day, 4-5 days per week
- The Events Team delivers mass participation events like Race for Life and Shine Night Walk, and we are looking for somebody that can develop a new partnership with an external charity or organisation to help us deliver key aspects of these events in a cost efficient and mutually beneficial way
- We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as an Events Team Intern and become part of an ambitious, bold, and fun team working together to bring forward the day that cancer is cured
- Within the role we are also wanting to improve the supporter experience at Race for Life and there will be an opportunity to work on a new or bespoke project to either improve an existing area on event day or explore a new activation on site for 2025
- To research external charities and organisations that might be a good fit to deliver key aspects of our mass participation events
- Write a compelling positioning statement of what we need delivering, why it’s important and how we could work together. Highlighting mutual benefits
- Presenting and pitching
- Pulling together a business case including financial elements of the proposition and any risks and issues
- Work with internal teams to support the business case
- Position and story-tell the work within the wider Events Team
- Set up the contracts ready for implementation
- Creative thinking
- This role will add real value to Cancer Research UK so we want to ensure you’re getting a lot out of it too
- As an intern you’ll go through a structured development programme with skills training in project management, CV writing and interview skills and you’ll have a buddy to help you settle in
Application process
- Application Deadline: Wednesday 26 June 11:59pm (the vacancy may close early if we receive a high volume of applicants, so please apply early to avoid disappointment)
- Interview dates: Approximately 7 – 21 August
- Stage 1: Online application with SJT
- Complete an online application form – you’ll be asked to answer a motivational competency question and upload your CV
- Once the roles are closed, you will then be invited to complete our situational judgment test. The test poses real life scenarios that a CRUK intern might be met with in their day to day role and asks how you would tackle that scenario. This is un-timed and multiple choice. Please let us know if you think you might require adjustments for this assessment
- Stage 2: Audio Submission
- If you are successful in the previous stage, you will be asked to complete an audio submission, answering competency-based questions. The questions will be emailed to you and you will have a few days to submit a response via an audio recording (no video required)
- Stage 3: Interviews
- If you are successful in the previous stage, you will then be invited to a face-to-face interview at our head office with representatives from the team you are applying to
- The Internship will start on Monday 23 September 2024
- Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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